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As 2013 winds to a close, we thought we'd take one more look back at the year's literary highlights. We asked Printers Row Journal contributors to write about a book they read this year that will linger in their minds well into 2014. Here's what they had to say. On art The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe by Vincent Michael (University of Illinois, $60) "We know too much about surface things, too little about what lies beyond the surface." The source of this quotation? Chicago architect Barry Byrne, a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice spotlighted in a new biography, "The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School...

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